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PLATE XXXI. 



FIG. I. 

 MUSCA CHAMELEON, 



ChaMjELEON-FlY. 

 DlPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a foft exferted flefhy probofcis and two equal lips : 

 fucker furnifhed with bridles : feelers two, very fhort or none : an- 

 tennae generally fhort. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Scutel bidentated and yellow : abdomen black, with lateral yellow 

 bands. 



Musca Chameleon. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 979. 3. 

 Stratiomys Chameleon : fcutello bidentato luteo : abdomine 



nigro : fafciis lateralibus luteis. Fabr. Ent. S)Ji, 



T. 4. 263. 3. 

 Stratiomys. Geoffr. Inf. 2. 479. tab. 7. fig. 4. 



Linnaeus, in a former edition of the Fauna Sueclca gave this infeci 

 the name of Oejlrus Aqua, but he afterwards difcovered it to be a 

 Mufca, and called it Mufca Chamaeleon. ft is a common infect in 

 fome fixations, but yet though well known in its perfe£i flate, few 

 have attended fo minutely to its changes as to difcbver that thefe form 



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